Archive for November 30th, 2007

That would be books, folks. Via Ottermatic, I found this awesome meme about the books you’ve read, haven’t read, tried to read and didn’t finish, or just couldn’t stand.

So here are the rules: bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish, and strike through what you couldn’t stand.

1984The Aeneid
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
American Gods
Anansi Boys
Angela’s Ashes : A Memoir
Angels & Demons
Anna KareninaAtlas ShruggedBeloved
The Blind AssassinBrave New World
The Brothers KaramazovThe Canterbury Tales
Catch-22
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Cloud Atlas
Collapse : How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Confusion
The CorrectionsThe Count of Monte CristoCrime and PunishmentCryptonomicon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
David Copperfield
Don QuixoteDracula
Dubliners
Dune
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Emma
Foucault’s PendulumThe Fountainhead
Frankenstein
Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
The God of Small ThingsThe Grapes of WrathGravity’s RainbowGreat ExpectationsGulliver’s Travels
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
The Historian : A NovelThe HobbitThe Hunchback of Notre DameThe Iliad
In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its ConsequencesThe Inferno
Jane Eyre
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
The Kite RunnerLes Misérables
Life of Pi : A Novel
Lolita
Love in the Time of Cholera
Madame Bovary
Mansfield Park
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlemarch
Middlesex
The Mists of AvalonMoby Dick
Mrs. Dalloway
The Name of the Rose
Neverwhere
Northanger AbbeyThe OdysseyOliver Twist
On the Road
The Once and Future King
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Oryx and Crake : A Novel
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
PersuasionThe Picture of Dorian GrayThe Poisonwood Bible : A Novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Pride and PrejudiceThe Prince
Quicksilver
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
The Satanic VersesThe Scarlet LetterSense and Sensibility
A Short History of Nearly Everything
The Silmarillion
Slaughterhouse-five
The Sound and the FuryThe Tale of Two Cities
Tess of the D’UrbervillesThe Three Musketeers
The Time Traveler’s Wife
To the LighthouseTreasure Island
Ulysses
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Vanity Fair
War and Peace
Watership Down
White Teeth
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the WestWuthering HeightsZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values

Hm. I notice that quite a few of the books on this list I’ve read I wasn’t really fond of. Eh. I found a lot of the English authors to be so depressing (Oliver Twist, y’all. My Lord, that was tedious.) But I loved Ayn Rand, despite her longwindedness (I mean, those novels could be classified as weapons.) But on the bright side, I have books aplenty on my list to read. And just for fun, I’m adding some books I’ve read that others may be interested in:

The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)

Tar Baby(Toni Morrison)

The Third Life of Grange Copeland (This was Alice Walker’s first novel)